Sweet home Alabama: US segregation, 60 years on
We’re in Tuscaloosa to trace the rising tide of re-segregation – a return to the “separate but equal days” that America was meant to have left behind.
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We’re in Tuscaloosa to trace the rising tide of re-segregation – a return to the “separate but equal days” that America was meant to have left behind.
1960s campaigns made massive strides in de-segregating US education. But as requirements on schools to educate black and white students are relaxed, re-segregation is becoming increasingly prevalent.
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Raffaele Sollecito is stopped by police close to the Austrian border, after judges reinstated his and Amanda Knox’s murder conviction for the death of British student Meredith Kercher.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are found guilty for the second time of the murder of Meredith Kercher – Channel 4 News looks at what awaits them under the Italian legal system.
An Italian court has ruled that American Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were guilty of the murder of British woman Meredith Kercher in 2009.
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A prominent British-based Muslim leader has been sentenced to death in his absence at a special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh.
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The retrial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher opens in Italy but neither of the accused was in court for the first hearing.